Abstract
According to the truthmaker principle, every truth – at least, every contingent truth – has a truthmaker, something in virtue of which it is true. This is perhaps too strong. True negative existentials – such as the truth that there are no unicorns – might motivate a retreat to the weaker principle that truth requires at most a truthmaker or lack of a falsemaker (in our example, lack of a unicorn). Such a principle would still vindicate the idea that truth supervenes on being – on what there is. However, some true (non-essential) predications – such as the truth that the rose is red – might motivate a further retreat to an even weaker principle, if one were to hold the view that it is not required that there be some thing (say, a state of affairs) in virtue of which it is true that the rose is red....
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